I was there in Tuscaloosa that evening and, thankfully, a bit cosmic. I've been to hundreds of concerts and have lived a very full life, but I've not experienced anything like 5/17/77 before or since. I've never been a "church person" though I've often wished those Sunday gatherings could offer me some spiritual food. However, I remember walking out of the venue that evening and telling my girlfriend "That's what church should be like", and to this day I wish it was. It was a true communion...the crowd and the band were solidly linked in ways that transcended eyes and ears. It was amazing! So glad I happened to be there...

This show was very important to me in so many ways. Two college friends from Wyoming hitchhiked from Laramie and met up with me in Monroe, Louisiana. A third friend from Monroe drove the 4 of us in his 2-seater sports car to Tuscaloosa, and we were the first people in line for the concert. For two of my friends, this was their very first Grateful Dead show. Were leaned on the stage, dead center, for the whole show...and what an amazing show it was!

Yeh,
That would have been nice,maybe one of my favorite intersecting songs, then they like drop it for a few years. No China Cat til DP 10 12/29/77 (The absolutely perfect brothers band)Great Show, sound quality is not that great cause the had not started doing HDCD til DP 15,

I play these games once every while: playing artists from A > Z, playing all artists or playin complete work of one artist. For me this last alternative, listening to the complete body of work of a single artist tends to be too monotonous with GD, Zappa, Miles, Beach boys, Phil Lesh, Lou Reed (and Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn)...

It's interesting, and cool, how many of us have not heard a lot of these shows. I have copies of the 13th and 15th but admittedly never listened to them much. Not because of performance but because there is always better sounding 77 to listen to. I also have the 5/12 bonus and the Fallout Jackaroe, and those have always gotten quite a few listens.

Anyway, the rest of 5/12, plus pretty much all of the 11th and 17th is new to me, and the 13th and 15th might as well be... very exciting! (The Tuscaloosa show is one that I always thought would be released some day, so I've avoided listening to it, hoping that my first listen would be to a Normanized version, yeay!)

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